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1 week ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

First. The news. The bio-tech player New Limit has raised $130 million from just about the fanciest assembly of smart, rich people imaginable. Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross – via NFDG - Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures and Human Capital are there in their corporate forms and Patrick and John Collison, Josh Kushner, Joe Lonsdale and Fred Ehrsam are there as individuals.

1 week ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Brad Smith’s body started to betray him seven years ago. A company operations executive living in Provo, Utah, Smith had tweaked his shoulder during a dodgeball game with a youth group at his church. He was 37 at the time, and it seemed like no big deal. Smith saw a physical therapist and dutifully completed his prescribed exercises over the course of a few weeks. The injury, though, lingered. Smith’s shoulder ached, and his range of motion had gotten worse instead of better.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Sam Altman has placed a handful of big bets on a handful of the most exciting technologies going. OpenAI speaks for itself on the AI front. Altman has then backed Helion for energy, World for finance…

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Chris Kemp does not care for the ending to HBO’s documentary Wild, Wild Space. In the last scene of the film, a handsome, erudite pundit is describing the financial perils being faced by Astra Space, the rocket company co-founded and run by Kemp. It’s noted that Astra’s cash has evaporated as it scrambles to complete Rocket 4 – the product on which the company’s future hinges.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

If you’ve seen HBO’s Wild, Wild Space or read When the Heavens Went on Sale, then Chris Kemp needs no introduction. Kemp is one of the stars in both works. For the less familiar, Kemp is the co-founder and CEO of Astra Space, a maker of rockets based in Alameda, Calif. For several years now, Astra has been on a quest to create the cheapest, easiest to launch rocket in the market and to turn rocket-making into a mass production affair.